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Ignoring the real issues

Posted by Doctor Poddy on Sunday, October 26, 2008 2:35:06 AM
Too many conservative blogs are ignoring the real issues.

I am reading nonsense about Obama's birth certificate, as if at this late date any judge would overturn an election on a technicality.

There are a lot more worrisome issues.

Problem one: Lying about being prolife.
This has hit the point to where 50 catholic bishops have had to open their mouths and correct Obama's propagandists.

This has implications in the future: we essentially have one political party who is interfering with a church's dogma.

Changing prolife laws will drastically affect Catholic hospitals and health care workers. If medical care is taken over by the government, this will especially become acute. Years ago, when Clinton "ordered" military docs to do abortion, they refused and he couldn't force them. What will happen now?

Ditto for IHS and other federal doctors.

But if there is a health care takeover, a Catholic doc will again be "reeducated" as some of us were in medical school

And if you think that is bad, wait until euthanasia starts getting promoted as a right.

The "gay marriage" part has little to do with "equal rights": No one is stopping gay couples from living together and being faithful with one another. Many lesbians already do.

The legal fight however will destroy churches that oppose such unions. Look at the fights by the boyscouts, and multiply by 100...and expect these churches to be taxed in the near future.

Finally, the public schools already are full of a wishy washy agenda, where traditional morality is ignored but the religion of green and tolorance is stressed.

With the federal takeover of schools, expect more so.

Home schoolers are safe for now, but watch for many such partents being harassed for child abuse.

Finally, we saw how within 24 hours of Joe the Plumber asking an awkward question of Obama, that government offices went into his files. Expect government offices to do the same for other opponents.

So far, no internet censorship, but just wait...hate speech is a broad brush that can shut down a lot of nasty people.

The Freepers already had suits against them by Clinton...expect similar in the future.

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ignoring ACORN

Posted by Doctor Poddy on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:10:39 PM
heh.
On Friday night, the Catholic Bishop's conference spokesman announced that they were stopping all donations to ACORN.

Did they do so because ACORN is supporting Obama?

Nah. They used the excuse a fourmonth old report that the head of ACORN had covered up a million dollars stolen by his brother from the organization in 2000.

Not only did he steal the money, but a few members of the board got together and decided not to prosecute the thief, in exchange for his family repaying the money. So far, one fifth of the amount has indeed been repaid.

But two board members found out and sued to open the books, and so the story did get publicity, in June, 2008. As a result, the head and the brother left ACORN and...nothing else until this week, when the entire board met, said the two board members didn't have the "right" to start a suit to open the books, and so the suit was withdrawn.

The excuse for the coverup: The good of the organization: they are deep in doodoo about other reasons, so don't want more criticism.

Hoo hum..nope, no news here, folks, just move along.

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happy domestic violence awareness month, gov. palin

Posted by Doctor Poddy on Saturday, October 11, 2008 8:12:47 AM
full rant at:

http://www.bloggernews.net/118116
and cross posted political part below:

But what if the abuser has status in the community, e.g. a well known lawyer, cop or businessman who will have no problem walking in court and denying the abuse? Often if the abused partner has hid the abuse out of shame, or she has withdrawn the accusations or the restraining order out of pity (so he won’t lose his job), she can’t prove her case. The result is that he essentially goes free to abuse again, and she ends up unable to prove the pattern of repeated abuse, and even complaints by family and friends that confirm the abuse might be dismissed as biased.

The helplessness of those suffering from domestic abuse against a criminal justice system that dismisses the seriousness of this crime can be seen in the Palin case:

If even a governor and her family after repeated complaints of domestic abuse and threats to a woman and her family can’t get a cop fired (and his right to carry a deadly weapon revoked), what does that mean for the average minority woman in Alaska who complains of domestic abuse by a policeman?  Presumably, after the politics calms down, someone with a background in human rights and domestic abuse will do an expose on the problem, but don’t hold your breath in the meanwhile.

But a lot of abused spouses will recognize the pattern: He has power, I do not. So he will keep getting off until he kills me, or his next girlfriend.

(FYI: the International Association of Chiefs of Police suggest guidelines for such cases. But I’ll give you a hint: The answer is not to censor the complaining family members for abuse of power).

Sigh.



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Racist? Moi?

Posted by Doctor Poddy on Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:39:27 PM
Obama's numbers must be slipping  because our Filipino paper has an article telling us about all those terrible American racists who won't vote for him.

Actually, there are racists, at many levels. Myself, having lost a scholarship when the school decided I wasn't a minority, I am racist. My son, who in the Job Corps noticed all the kids in one dorm smoked Marijuana and no one said a thing, but that if the Hispanic kids (like him) tried anything, they were disciplined, is racist too.

All those "polls" who tell America that the world wants Obama as the next president ignores the one sided media coverage by anti American (leftist/progressive) newspapers not to mention the openly anti American CNNInternational.

One of our ABSCBN reporters was at the Democratic convention, and interviewed some local Pinoys in Denver, and was astonished to find many of them were anti Obama: Because  they had relatives in the Military, and Obama was anti Military.

Obama's problem is not racism, but that he is painted as the great hope for mankind, and was placed in running by his radical followers hijacking the primaries.

I'm a Hillary backer, and just go to Real Politics: numbers don't lie. The caucuses went big for Obama, but the actual numbers were even.

The problem, of course, is if McCain wins, I agree with James Carville that there will be riots.

If it is close, expect 2000's troubles squared.
Someday, AlGore will be noted in history books like the Gracchi brothers: Not for what he did in office, but because he broke the system and the unwritten rules to try to get elected.

And if Obama wins, with all those illegal votes, McCain, like Nixon, won't make a fuss.

He will put the good of the country before his personal ambition.


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Debate bias on CNN INternational

Posted by Doctor Poddy on Saturday, October 04, 2008 1:23:06 AM
CNN International had the VP debates...of course we missed them except for about a half hour.

But their "review" of the debates was interesting, to say the least.
They had "letters" from their viewers: First one, nice analysis pro Palin. Three more were simply talking points, and then the announcer said their poll implied Biden won.

But the worst bias was their clips of the debate. In the clip, Biden was talking, and Palin looked like she was playing defense. But a second clip of her talking was taken from a distance, full body view with Biden in the center, and Palin facing Biden so that you only saw 10 percent of her face.

Needless to say, they are pro Obama.

Ironically, when the BBC was interviewing an "expert" who said the buzz was that it would be a landslide for Obama, it was the BBC reporter who essentially pointed out that things could change in the next month.

I can't remember the expert's name, but if the "buzz" was an Obama landslide, it meant the pundits felt he would win in a landslide. The pundit also said that he visited Nevada (?) a solidly pro Republican state, and low and behold it looked like people there were pro Obama too...

I suspect that pro McCain voters are so worried about abuse that they won't say anything. When I blog elsewhere, and try to be apolitical,  and even hint Obama is lying, I get cremed and accused of racism.

Luckily, I have lots of blogs, and one is a human rights blog about Africa, so I place that as my home page. Let them figure that one out...

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Nope, no press bias...

Posted by Doctor Poddy on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 1:39:52 AM
Instapundit has a link from someone in a newsroom claiming press bias in favor of Obama...

Well, one only has to watch CNN International to realize that maybe the reason that the US is so unpopular is that there is no pro American network to tell the other side of the story...
No, I don't especially count VOA as pro american, especially since it is only shortwave.

Last week, while all the news of financial problems, bombs in Pakistan etc was going on, they had a "Palin charged for rape kits" in their news ticker...old news, if one was aware of the left wing palinderangement syndrome...but why on the news ticker? No context: such as the "charge" was to the criminal if convicted, and no admissions that no victim had ever been charged at all, nor any context (how do small town cops fit this into their budget? Did any real rapes occur in the town requiring a kit? Most rapes are date rapes, or women come in days later or after showering when kits are not used...I've done quite a few examinations as a doc...and even on Indian reservations where rapes (from Alcohol abuse)are common, we see only two or three which require a rape kit each year).

Similarly, after the debate, they had all this "reading body language" on McCain, and lots of negative comments. but only one observation on Obama out of the five minute segment.

So as a foreigner it is impossible to tell what is going on...and the Democrats are trying to recruit foreign residents for voting...
Just be aware that this opens stuff to fraud...

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